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• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
  Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them....
• There is a love of wild nature in everybody an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused
  eparate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate....
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
  All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!
  In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track....
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  -- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110....